La Bòbila del Sugranyes is a protected building and a local cultural heritage asset in Reus. Situated near the Reus-Tarragona highway, this kiln features a circular plan with a diameter of twenty-three meters. Constructed with timber and bricks, it includes a central chimney nineteen meters high that rises from the semi-buried lower area of the kiln, featuring radial feeding holes and a peripheral circulation gallery.
The facility was used to manufacture bricks, tiles, and other ceramic materials. Its current appearance is the result of a rehabilitation by a team of architects, and it now serves as a museum and interpretation center for the history of ceramics and the functioning of a kiln.
In August 1939, at the beginning of the post-war period, a group of PSUC militants gathered at this location to form a new local committee. This group was to be headed by Àngel Olaya, a core that would later coordinate with other cities. Olaya was eventually imprisoned in the Presó Model in Barcelona and sentenced to death, but a group of militants later helped him escape with false documentation.
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Written by Nik Frost
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